Uruguay releases stamp issue on 70th anniversary of Battle of the River Plate

Monday, December 28th 2009 - 12:21 UTC

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Uruguay released a stamp issue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Battle of the River Plate --December 13th 1939--, which ended with the scuttling of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee. Read full article

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c kutasz
The name of the river is Rio de la Plata. Plata is the Spanish word for the precious metal, silver. A plate is something you eat on,it also describes a geological feature but has nothing to do with silver.It is time to right a wrong.
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